Destination Italy

Due to its strategic Mediterranean position, Italy is a crossroad of complex transnational movements, a unique context for the study of contemporary migration. This book brings together scholars from migration studies, linguistics, media, literature and film studies, as well practitioners and activists, to explore Italy as a destination country.

Italy is one of the most recent immigratory destinations in Europe, having long been one of the continent's most important sources of emigration. Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, the Italian peninsula is a crossroads of complex transnational movements and represents a unique and dynamic context for the study of contemporary migration and its representation through the diverse channels of media, literature and film. The product of a two-year interdisciplinary research project into representations of migration to Italy, this volume brings together scholarly contributions from the fields of migration studies, linguistics, media, literature and film studies as well as essays by practitioners and activists. It provides both a multi-faceted snapshot of how diverse representations of immigration capture experiences and affect decision-making dynamics and an in-depth study of how media, literature and cinema contribute to the public perception of migrants within the destination culture.

Autorentext

Emma Bond is Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on the literary relationship between space and identity, and particularly on border, migrant and transnational writing. Guido Bonsaver is Professor of Italian Cultural History at the University of Oxford. He works on the relationship between political history and narrative and has particular expertise in censorship, Fascism and film studies. Federico Faloppa is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Reading. His research centres around the linguistic construction of otherness, the dynamics of language and power, and intercultural communication.

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Contents: Marco Binotto: Invaders, Aliens and Criminals: Metaphors and Spaces in the Media Definition of Migration and Security Policies - Marco Bruno: The Journalistic Construction of «Emergenza Lampedusa»: The «Arab Spring» and the «Landings» Issue in Media Representations of Migration - Mahmoud Zidan: The Image of Italy and Immigrants to Italy in the Media: A Destination or Place of Damnation? - Federico Faloppa: Media and Migration: Some Linguistic Reflections - Andrea Pogliano: Framing Migration: News Images and (Meta-)Communicative Messages - Gabriela Jacomella: The Silence of Migrants: The Underrepresentation of Migrant Voices in the Italian Mainstream Media - Anna Meli: Training Journalists on Immigration: Experiences and Reflections - Eugénie Saitta: Ethnicity and Organizational Processes in «Mixed» Media: The Case of Yalla Italia - Grazia Biorci: Beyond Hybridization: Metaphors and New Visions in «Migrant Literature» in Italian - Nora Moll: Narrative Strategies, Literary Imaging and Reflections on Identity: Constructing a Narrative Community in Italy - Emma Bond: «Skin Memories»: Expressions of Corporeality in Recent Trans-national Writing in Italian - Maria Grazia Negro: The Decentred Gaze of Postcolonial Literature on Italians Past and Present - Daniele Comberiati/Linde Luijnenburg: New Postcolonial Art Forms: Timira as Multi-Genre Object Between Cinema and Literature - Derek Duncan: The Postcolonial Afterlife of Primo Levi - Loredana Polezzi: Migrant Writing as (Self-)Translation: The Transnational Trajectory of Giose Rimanelli - Vito Zagarrio: Imagined Journeys: Italian Directors and Immigration - Guido Bonsaver: Accented Voices in Contemporary Italian Cinema - Millicent Marcus: Federico Bondi's Mar nero: Channelling the Geographic Unconscious - Paolo Russo: Migration Told Through Noir Conventions in La sconosciuta and Gomorra - Alessandro Jedlowski: Nigerian Migrants, Nollywood Videos and the Emergence of an «Anti-Humanitarian» Representation of Migration in Italian Cinema - Áine O'Healy: Witnessing History, Recounting Suffering: The Documentary Project of Andrea Segre - Alessandro Triulzi: Roaming to Rome: Archiving and Filming Migrant Voices in Italy.